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		<title>OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition With Nov. 12 Deadline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OpenAI is cutting Cursor off.

The company has notified SpaceX that it intends to end Cursor’s direct access to OpenAI models on November 12, 2026, following SpaceX’s acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.

For developers who rely on GPT models inside Cursor, that puts a clock on something that has become part of their daily workflow.

But Cursor itself isn't going away. The question is what actually changes when one of the models behind your AI coding workflow suddenly disappears and whether Cursor can move on without OpenAI as easily as it might seem.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can Twitter.now Survive? The New Twitter Faces a Bigger Problem Than X</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The bird is back.

After Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, a startup called Operation Bluebird has now launched Twitter.now using the Twitter name, the familiar bird, and an ambitious promise to build a new kind of public square.

But this isn't really about bringing back an old brand.

Twitter.now says it wants to build something different: a social network centered on trust, transparency, and user choice, where people can decide how much reach different posts deserve instead of leaving everything to an opaque algorithm.

Early access costs $20, and the platform is already offering founding members the chance to claim handles and even become Founder #00001.

The question, though, isn't whether Twitter.now can bring back the name.

It's whether it can bring back the people.

Because in social media, having the right name is one thing. Convincing millions of people to leave an established network, rebuild their communities somewhere else, and give a tiny new platform a reason to exist is an entirely different game.

And that's where its actual challenge begins.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Bluetooth Glitch Just Exposed How AliExpress Fingerprints Vistors&#8217; Browsers Through Audio</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your headphones can tell you when a website is doing something strange.

At least, that's what happened when a developer noticed his Bluetooth headphones stopped switching back to his phone whenever an AliExpress tab was open on his PC.

There was no music playing from the computer. No video. No audible sound. Closing the AliExpress tab immediately fixed the problem.

That strange Bluetooth glitch led him to something much more interesting: AliExpress was quietly running audio through the browser, not to listen to the user, but to measure how the browser and device processed a known sound.

The technique is called Web Audio fingerprinting. And while it sounds like something from an older era of browser tracking, the discovery shows just how much information a website can extract from seemingly ordinary browser APIs.

Brave later highlighted the case, explaining that AliExpress wasn't recording users' audio. Instead, it was generating a silent signal and measuring how a device processed it to help fingerprint the browser.

So what exactly was happening inside that supposedly silent AliExpress tab and why did a fingerprinting technique end up interfering with a pair of Bluetooth headphones?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hister: Your Own Private Search Engine for Web Pages and Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You know that page you read three months ago and somehow can’t find again?

Hister is built for exactly that problem. It turns the web pages you visit and the files you keep into your own searchable index, so you can search the actual content instead of trying to remember a title, URL, or where you saved it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Atomic Chat: Run Open-Weight LLMs Locally on Windows, macOS &#038; Linux</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Firethering Team]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Want to run an AI model locally, but still use it with the tools you already have?

Atomic Chat makes that possible. It lets you run open-weight LLMs from Hugging Face on your own computer, then exposes them through an OpenAI-compatible API so coding agents, CLIs, IDE plugins and other apps can use your local models too.

You can run models such as Llama, Gemma, Qwen, Mistral and Phi, use Atomic Chat as a regular AI chat app, or connect it to tools such as OpenCode, Goose and Kilo Code. Your local conversations and API keys can stay on your machine, while cloud providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and Groq are available when you need them.

Under the hood, it also supports multiple inference engines and performance features such as speculative decoding, Flash Attention and TurboQuant on supported models and hardware.

So you're getting more than a local chatbot. Atomic Chat can act as the local AI layer behind the rest of your setup.]]></description>
		
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		<title>“Mostly My Fault”: Inside Sam Altman’s High-Stakes Gamble to Save OpenAI’s Dominance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been a little over a month since Sam Altman admitted something you don't often hear from the CEO of the company that helped kick off the generative AI boom.

“We did not have our best last 12 months ever, which is mostly my fault.”

Then he raised the stakes.

Altman said OpenAI is about to have its best 12 months to date.

A month later, that promise is worth looking at more closely because OpenAI isn't simply trying to release a better model.

It's spending enormous amounts of money on compute, pushing deeper into AI agents and products, competing with increasingly capable rivals, and making bets on infrastructure that could shape how the company operates for years.

So what changed?

And more importantly, what exactly is Altman betting on to turn a year he largely blames himself for into OpenAI's best one yet?]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Escape Google, You Had to Buy a Pixel. Motorola Is About to Change That.</title>
		<link>https://firethering.com/grapheneos-motorola-phones/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years, there was a strange contradiction at the heart of one of Android’s most privacy-focused alternatives: if you wanted to get away from Google’s software, you generally had to buy a Google phone.

GrapheneOS has largely been tied to the Pixel because Google’s hardware has provided the security features the project needs to build its hardened version of Android. It was an engineering compromise, not exactly an endorsement of the Google ecosystem.

Now, that compromise may finally be ending.

Motorola and the GrapheneOS project are working together on a new generation of Motorola phones that are expected to support GrapheneOS in 2027. For the first time, the project is preparing to expand beyond Pixel hardware with support from another major smartphone maker.

That sounds like a simple hardware partnership.

It isn't.

Because getting GrapheneOS onto another phone isn't as easy as installing a different operating system. The hardware underneath has to meet a demanding set of security requirements and that creates an unexpected problem for anyone hoping for a cheap, privacy-focused phone.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cursor Origin Doesn’t Want to Replace GitHub. (Yet.)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years, GitHub was the boring part of software development.

Developers wrote code, opened a pull request, waited for review, merged it, and moved on. The system was built around a fairly simple assumption: a human was creating most of the work.

That workflow starts to look a little different when your coding assistant can work on multiple tasks, generate changes and open pull requests while you're doing something else.

Cursor seems to be betting that this is going to change more than just how developers write code.

The company just launched Origin, its own code-hosting platform, bringing repositories, pull requests and Cursor's AI agents into the same environment.

Then, almost immediately, GitHub had a major outage. The timing made for an easy headline: Cursor launches a GitHub competitor as GitHub goes down.

But that's not really what matters. GitHub came back up.

What matters is why Cursor is moving into code hosting at all and what it sees changing as AI agents become a much bigger part of software development.

Because Origin isn't really about giving developers another place to store their Git repositories.]]></description>
		
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		<title>6 Best Chrome Alternatives That Actually Respect Your Privacy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your browser knows more about you than you probably realize.

Every search, website, click, and login passes through the software you use to access the internet. And while most browsers promise some level of privacy, they don't all protect you in the same way.

So why settle for a browser that tracks you when you can use one that actually respects your privacy? And if it can also keep unwanted trackers away, even better.

There are plenty of options out there, but this list looks at some genuinely useful alternatives that don't get nearly as much attention as the usual names. Some offer privacy protections you might otherwise expect from a paid product, while others take a completely different approach.

None of them is perfect, and each comes with its own trade-offs. But if you're looking to break free from heavily tracking browsers like Chrome, there's likely an option here that fits the way you browse.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Man Tried to Hack a Court AI That Didn’t Exist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohit Geryani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Connecticut man appears to have tried to use prompt injection to influence an AI system that he believed might be involved in handling his court case.

He hid instructions inside his legal filings, formatting them so they would be difficult for a human reader to see but readable by software processing the document. The instructions told any AI reviewing the filing to favor his arguments and disregard earlier decisions that went against him.

There was just one problem: the court wasn't using AI to review or decide the case.

The hidden prompts had no effect on the ruling. But the judge still found the tactic serious enough to warrant sanctions, particularly after the man continued hiding messages in later filings even after being warned.

The case may sound bizarre, but the judge saw something bigger in it: as AI becomes part of legal and other document-processing systems, prompt injection is no longer just a problem inside chatbots.

The documents themselves can become the attack surface.]]></description>
		
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